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Cricket McRae

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.cricketmcrae.com

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Crafts & Hobbies

member since

March 2011

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Cricket McRae enjoys home crafts like food preservation, cheese making, candle making, and fiber arts. She writes the Sophie Mae Reynolds Homecrafting Mystery Series.

For two years Cricket managed her own soap making business, including all product design, manufacturing and marketing. The recipes included in her first book, Lye in Wait, are all Cricket's original formulations. She has also worked in a variety of other fields ranging from drivers license examiner to program manager for a major software firm. This fulfills her mothers warning that shed never have a regular job if she insisted on studying philosophy in college.

The fifth Home Crafting Mystery, Wined and Died, will be available in bookstores July, 2011. Her books are also availa...more

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NCW Conference and What’s Coming Up

As I sat down to write this post there were a gazillion things flying around in my brain. Mostly that was due to the fact that I haven’t posted for a while and there are lots of things I’d like to catch up on.

Weekend before last was filled with all sorts of writing goodness. Much of it revolved around the Northern Colorado Writers Conference at the Hilton, which I mentioned in my last post (...

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Books by Cricket McRae

Average rating: 3.61 · 1,049 ratings · 190 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Lye in Wait (Home Crafting Mystery, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Heaven Preserve Us (Home Crafting Mystery, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Spin a Wicked Web (Home Crafting Mystery, #3) 3.69 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (Home Crafting Mystery, #4) 3.66 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wined and Died (Home Crafting Mystery, #5) 3.62 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Deadly Row to Hoe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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Series by Cricket McRae

Home Crafting Mystery (6 books)
by Cricket McRae (Goodreads Author)

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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

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